Winifred Knights, 1899-1947

Sacha Llewellyn

First major retrospective of Winifred Knights, curated Sacha Llewellyn, the catalog details Knight personal and artistic story. All five of her major paintings, accompanied by preparatory studies, are presented together for the first time. Winifred Knights (1899-1947) is one of the outstanding, but until recently neglected, British women painters of the first half of the 20th century. Copiously illustrated in color throughout, this book provides the first full account of her life and work, examining Knights' art in the context of interwar Modernism and assessing her contribution to the revival in this period of both Decorative Painting and religious imagery. Author Sacha Llewellyn traces the artist's career from her years at the Slade School of Art and her First World War evacuation to rural Worcestershire through to the time she spent at the British School at Rome in the early 1920s...